Sad-iron.



T. D. PALMER.

S'AD IRON.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-11,1911. 1,141,903, PatentedJune 1, 1915.

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THEODORE D. PALMER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO '1. D. PALMER COMIANY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1915.

' Application filed November 17, 1911. Serial no. 660,859. I

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, THEODORE D. PALMER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sad-Irons, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in sad irons for smoothing or polishing garments and fabrics by rubbing pontact.

The primary object is to provide the sad iron with means for applying moisture to the surface of the garment just in advance of the ironing surface so that the smoothing or polishing may follow immediately after 'sectional view of a modified form of sad iron showing the perforated portion thereof in the same plane as the main body of the ironing surface. Fig. 5 is a-transverse vertical sectional view taken on line 66, Fig. 4. The sad iron in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 comprises a hollow cast metal body1- of suitable size convenient for handling and preferably tapered toward its front end and is provided with non-communicating compartments 2- and 3-' separated by a partition 4. r

The greater portion of the bottom 5 of the sad iron is flat and smooth to form an ironing or polishing surface, while the front vided with a seriesqof perforations 7- wholly in front of the imperforate ironing plate or bottom ,5 and also wholly in front of the heating chamber -.3- which is substantially coextensive in area with the ironing plate 5.

The front perforated portion 6 of the bottom of the chamber -2 is preferably rai sed and surrounded by amarginal rib or spreading the 8-, the object in raising this surface being to permit the entrance of steam to the surface of the garment in advance of the ironing plate 5, while the rib 8 serves the double purpose of smoothing out the garment in advance of the ironing plate and also of confining the steam more or less within the perforated area by reason of its contact with the garment.

Moisture is preferably supplied to the chamber 2 and through the perforations -7- to the surface of the garment by means of steam and for this purpose I have provided the sad iron with a steam pipe 9- adapted to be connected to anyavailable source of steam supply, said pipe leadby means of a branch pipe l0 having a self-closing valve --11 which is adapted to be opened by a hand lever 13 within easy reaching distance of the handle as 14 by which the sad iron may be manipulated. That is, during the operation of iron- .ing or polishing a garment, the operator may readily open the valve 11 by means of the hand lever 13 by the same hand with which the handle 14 is gripped. This admission of the steam to the chamber 2- .will, of course, heat the sad iron more or less but insuflicient to keep it at a uniform temperature and for this purpose I ing to the interior of the chamber 2 provide the sad iron with the extra heating chamber 3 which may be heated byany suitable heating means but preferably by a branch steam pipe 15 leading from the main supply pipe 9-- to the interior of the chamber 3' as best. seen in Fig. 2.

The front end of the ironing plate 5- is also tapered or somewhat pointed at 16-- for the purpose of additionally smoothing garment out during the operation of ironing.

- In Fig. 4 is shown a modifiedform of sad iron quite similar to that shown in Figs. 1

and 2 except that the perforated portion as 26' of the bottom of the sad, iron is disposed in substantially the same plane as the main body of the ironing plate for thepurpose of supplying steam to the surface of the garment directly in advance of the ironing plate. Any water of condensation which .may accumulatein the heating chambers 3 or 21 may be drawn 011' through the. branch pipe 15- by disconnecting said pipe from the source of steam supply and depressing the open end thereof below the'plane of the heating chamber, it being understood that the portion of the pipe -9'- connected to'the source of steam supply is flexible and may be readily connected or disconnected at will by any suitable form and forward of the 'imperfora'te ironing plate; aflange around said perforated plate,

the lower surfaceof the flange being in the same plane as the bottom of the .imperforate ironing plate; means for supplying the compartment having the perforate bottom with moisture; and means for heating the other compartment, substantiallyas described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand on this 2nd day of November 1911.

- THEODORE D. PALMER. Witnesses:

H. E. CHASE, E. F. SPEAKING. 

